Lencia McKee

Lencia McKee (she/her) is a research data librarian in the research data and open scholarship (RDOS) department at Cornell University Library. As part of the RDOS team, she supports research data services through data and code curation, management, education, and outreach, while promoting good data and code stewardship throughout the research data lifecycle. She is also a member of the Cornell data services (CDS) consulting team. Before joining Cornell University, Lencia was an open science program coordinator at Carnegie Mellon University and led the design and development of open science program initiatives and coordinated and collaborated with individuals across the university who support open science. Lencia is a first-generation college graduate and holds a BA in speech, language, and hearing, as well as a BA in linguistics from the University of Kansas. She also earned an MLIS with a specialization in archival studies from Emporia State University.